How architecture works
a humanist's toolkit
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Author
Publication
2013 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
88,750 words, Guess
Page Count
355 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27150624M
- Internet Archivehowarchitecturew0000rybc
- ISBN-100374211744
- ISBN-139780374211745
- Library of Congress Control Number2013006524
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number827256446
- Better World Books9780374211745
Classifications
- DDC720
- LCCNA2550 .R965 2013
Description
In "How Architecture Works," Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his architectural writing, answers our most fundamental questions about how good--and not-so-good--buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he takes us behind the scenes, revealing how architects as different as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to "read" plans, how buildings respond to their settings, and how the smallest detail--of a stair balustrade, for instance--can convey an architect's vision.
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